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I WILL never forget the day I agreed to have a
talk with a friend who was on the verge of
ditching her husband for another married man. “I am tired of giving birth to ugly children”, she
snapped when I broached the subject, telling her
my mediating was at the insistence of her
husband, who was also a close friend. “My
daughter is so dark I feel for her at times as
there is the possibility of her attracting only ugly men. 1 am dark, my husband is dark. You have
seen the new man yourself, he has lovely children.
Let me also have children 1 can be proud of for a
change!” So she left and eventually had three
children by this other man. I wished I could say they are as ugly as the ones
she had with her first husband, but no. They are quite attractive and
athletic, and she was proud of her feat! Her
husband also remarried, of course. “And his new
set of kids are even uglier than the ones I had for
him,” smirked my friend. Lately, I learnt both of
them were thinking of going back together since they were not properly divorced. I thought the
idea absurd. I would have termed it impossible, if I
hadn’t heard it from the now bitter father of her
‘lovely’ children, her second ‘husband’. When she phoned a few days later, I told her of
the ridiculous rumour I heard about her first
husband coming back to her. “Don’t mind the jerk,
he’s just jealous,” she said of her now ex-lover,
“By the way, Jide (her real husband) is here and
wants to talk to you.” “Are you back together” I asked him incredulously when he came on the
phone. “Of course, we are!” he actually sounded
happy.

Drchristian:
wot r ur reasons@op. You are mad, igbo has d most prostitute/promiscous female in Nigeria or Africa

guy u are a lame bastard, ur generation d edos or better known as the benins have been in the prostitution industry since 184BC esp here in naija and europe.

patrick89:
you are damn right! I was explaining this same thing to someone, I notice that aguata orumba dialect doesn't bring out the R and L interference! but onicha does... unfortunately onicha dialect is seen as sexy (lol) so many pple choose to speak it.

kedu ife icholo(ichoro) iwetalam(iwetaram). abulom instead of aburom

na true talk broda, but NGWAA and MBAISE/MBANO dialect funny pass
lolz

I think the use of central igbo should be practised now and the different dialects can be spoken in the region were it originates or between people of that area because if are to forget the central igbo and chase after the different dialects our language may not live to survive it.we have to revive our igbo language first before any other thing.

Thats cool

ernesty20:
Wetin be my own .

Proudly Biafran

Na tomorrow na, Biafra go rake the ZOO.

By Kingsley Omonobi-Abuja.
The Nigerian Army disclosed last night that it has
destroyed another set of 5 terrorist camps
operated by the Boko Haram group in Marte
Local government area of Borno state . It will be recalled that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.
General Tukur Buratai debunked the Governor’s
assertion that some communities in the Local
government area were still been controlled by
the terrorists group insisting that all Nigerian
communities had been liberated. During the confrontation to clear the camps, the
army said its troops killed two Boko Haram
terrorists, recovered two dane guns, one double
barrel and 12 motorcycles abandoned by the
fleeing terrorists. A statement detailing the army operation, signed
by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col.
Sani Usman said, “In efforts to continually
dominate, recover territories and clear all
Nigerian territory of Boko Haram vestiges, the
advancing troops of 5 Brigade Task Group have today (yesterday) cleared 5 more terrorists
camps at Hausari and Baranga in Marte Local
Government Area of Borno State. “The troops during and encounter with Boko
Haram terrorists at the camps killed 2 terrorists
and recovered 2 Dane guns and a Double Barrel
gun, while 12 motorcycles abandoned by some
fleeing terrorists were destroyed. “In addition, a suspected female member of the
terrorists group was captured and is currently
undergoing interrogation. “It will be recalled that troops of 5 Brigade had
some time last month cleared and destroyed
twenty terrorist’s camps at Kerenowa general
area. “In a related development, troops of 28 Task
Force Brigade on patrol between Bitta –Yamteke
in Borno State to block Boko Haram terrorists
fleeing from Lagaran Fulani to enter Sambisa
forest, discovered 2 planted Improvised
Explosive Devices (IEDs) and successfully detonated them. Continuing the statement said, “We wish to state
here that, while striving to stamp out terrorists
from Nigerian territory, the troops remain
committed to ensuring that they cleared and
secure all known Boko Haram terrorists’ camps



www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/troops-destroy-five-more-boko-haram-camps/

There are indications that the Nigerian
Communications Commission may be asked to
reduce the N1.04 trillion fine imposed on MTN
Nigeria over non compliance in the deactivation
of improper registered SIM cards. This is after the Commission Tuesday, received a
letter from the telecommunications company,
apologizing for wrong doing and pleading for
leniency. An impeccable source at the NCC told Vanguard
on condition of anonymity that the commission
was in receipt of MTN’s apology letter but
however added that the power to decide what is
to be done at the moment was no longer in
NCC’s hands. According to the source, “ I can confirm that the
commission has received an official letter from
MTN admitting its guilt and pleading for leniency.
However, the power to grant the leniency is no
longer entirely on NCC’s hands but that of the
presidency. But there are also indications that the Federal Government may ask us to reduce
the fine to an appreciable level. “If MTN had complied with several directives by
the NCC it wouldn’t have been in this mess but I
hope they learn their lessons from this. Nigeria is
its biggest market. It was surprising that they
didn’t anticipate that if things get wrong here, it
could affect their other markets. Now, it is alleged that it has lost more than $2.7b from
people migrating from its shares to others since
this incident. Its a lesson they should not allow
to recur” he added. Meanwhile, according to a report published by
online platform, Bloomberg Business yesterday,
the South African lawmakers, are planning to
meet with the officials of MTN Group Limited to
discuss why the company was fined $5.2 billion
by the NCC. The report said that the law makers also intend
to summon the South African industry regulator
to determine whether MTN is compliant with
local rules, with hearings likely to take place
next year. Bloomberg quoted chairwoman of Parliament’s
telecommunications committee Nkhensani
Kubayi, to be leading the panel.


www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/ncc-may-reduce-mtns-n1-04tr-fine/

zuchyblink:
Ikwerre Igbo is very easy to understand but the one that gives me headache is Izzi.
Ikwerre Igbo: Elele Alimini
central Igbo: Elele Alammiri

kai !!!,bros i no grab anytin at all. Dat elele does not make any sense to me at all but the alammiri make brain. D most funny igbo dialect to listen to is NGWA.

14teenK:
Just like during my secondary school days......we dare not speak Igbo or else Seminarians will flog the hell outta u

Thats true, and they will make you suffer for the sake of your mother tongue

Apparently stunned by the artistry of defending
champions, Golden Eaglets in the on-going FIFA
U-17 World Cup in Chile, former Mexico U-17
coach, Raul Gutierrez has accused the Nigerian
wonder-kids of doing things no real U-17 player
could do with the ball. He did not spare Mali too as he claimed that the
two African teams in Chile could not possibly be
U-17 players. Gutiérrez was in charge when the 2013 set of
Eaglets beat Mexico twice en-route to being
crowned champions in the United Arab Emirates. And while the Golden Eaglets have been
outstanding at the ongoing tournament in Chile,
Gutiérrez suggests that there is much to meet the
eye as he posited that the Eaglets aside their
physical attributes take decisions that are not
expected of true U-17 players. Gutiérrez also made same accusation against the
Mali team that have also booked their place in
the semi final. “It’s the same with the Nigeria team, so with Mali,
that beyond their physical development,
decisions made by many of their players are not
of an U-17 player’’ the coach told
mediotiempo.com. Despite his fears, Gutiérrez said he believes
Mexico can beat Nigeria when both countries
meet in the semi-finals on Thursday (12a.m.
Friday, Nigeria time), but admitted that it will be
difficult. “Sure we can beat them. I think Mexico
can have a good result on Thursday. “In football nothing is written, everyone already
knows that the game will be complex. We will
face an opponent with a winning record, but
you must play the game, the matches are
defined on the field and we have to think that
way,” says Gutiérrez.


www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/mexico-coach-slams-nigeria-mali-as-age-cheats/

Enugu — The umbrella association of all Igbo
cultural unions, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has given
reasons for Igbo language not being spoken at
Igbo gatherings by Ndigbo. Former National Secretary of Ohanaeze,
Professor Ben Nwabueze, SAN, who spoke,
lamented that Ndigbo do not speak the Igbo
language to themselves because most of them
were promoting their various dialects instead of
speaking the central Igbo. There are as many Igbo dialects as there are communities. Nwabueze, who spoke at an Igbo language
programme organized by the Igbo Youth
Movement, IYM, for secondary school students in
Enugu, said that Ohanaeze Ndigbo once decided
that its meetings and activities would be
conducted in Igbo, but this did not work because there were several Igbo dialects
spoken in various parts of Igbo nation unlike
Hausa or Yoruba which had acceptable central
language. “We once said at an Ohanaeze meeting that all
our meetings would be conducted in Igbo
because we realized that our language was
dying, but this did not work. The first day we
decided that we must speak Igbo in our
meetings, the late governor of Anambra State, Chief C. C. Onoh spoke his own brand of WAWA
Igbo. “Onoh spoke at length and most people did not
understand what he was saying. Every other
person spoke his own dialect and at the end,
nobody spoke Igbo again at Ohanaeze because
none of us understood one another’s dialect,”
he said. Also contributing, the former Registrar of the
West African Examinations Council, WAEC, and
now traditional ruler, Professor Chukwuemeka
Ike, blamed the inability of Ndigbo to speak
Igbo on the missionaries who established
schools in Igbo land. Ike said that when he went to the then
Government College, Umuahia in the present
Abia State, it was an offence to speak Igbo in the
school premises. “When I went to Government College, it was an
offence to speak Igbo in the school then. When I
left the college, I travelled overseas for further
studies. Writers should publish their books in
both English and Igbo languages …,” he
added. Also speaking, the former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, said that Igbo language
should not be allowed to die. On why Ndigbo do not speak their language,
Ekwueme said that this was because, “English
language is a predator to Igbo,” just as Hausa is
the predator to Angas, spoken by the former
Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon’s people. “Gowon’s father was the leader of his people in
the Anglican Church. The Bible was first
translated to Angas language, but nobody read
it because Hausa is predator to Angas. Igbo
Bible is not read because English is the predator
to Igbo. “The Hausa Bible which was translated after the
Angas Bible is widely read, but that of the Angas
did not sell,” he said. John Okafor, aka Ibu, an
actor, also lamented that the average “Igbo child
cannot tell you where he comes from. He will tell
you that his/her father has not told him the name of his village. This is not good. We must
speak our language,” Ibu said.





www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/why-we-dont-speak-igbo-at-our-meetings-ohanaeze/


cc laclasticla

By Simon Ebegbulem BENIN—Edo State Government has uncovered
$31 million allegedly siphoned from the coffers
of the state during the administration of a former
governor of the state and directed the Attorney-
General to commence legal processes to recover
same. This was part of the decision reached at the end
of the State Executive Council, SEC, meeting held
in the state capital, yesterday. Uncovered fraud Briefing the press at the end of the meeting,
Commissioner for Information, Mr Louis Odion
said: “There is the issue of a fraud that was
discovered while turning our books. We found
that the $31 million was fraudulently taken from
state coffers under a past administration in state. The governor has directed the Attorney-General
to commence legal action in that direction. So, in
the coming days, the state government will take
legal action to ensure that what was stolen from
Edo State Government is recovered. When you
convert $31 million to naira, it fetches you a whopping N7 billion. You can imagine what N7
billion will do in improving the human condition
in Edo State.” The commissioner, who praised some landlords
and companies in the state on the level of their
compliance with the land use charge, said
Governor Oshiomhole asked him to convey his
appreciation and gratitude to the people of Edo
State as well as members of the private sector for their voluntary compliance with the Land Use
Charge. Challenge “He has asked me to single out Coca-Cola
Bottling Company for voluntary compliance. I
think we need to put this in context. Our
challenge as a government is mounting. Every
day, our citizens want government to intervene,
they want schools to be built, they want roads reconstructed but the truth is that our revenue is
dwindling and without deepening the tax base,
we won’t be able to deliver. So, when we find
corporate bodies and citizens who voluntarily
comply by paying their taxes, we view them as
partners in progress.


www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/edo-moves-to-recover-31m-from-ex-governor/

Abuja – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) says it will ensure that 80 per cent of Nigerians are aware of their fundamental human rights by the end of December, 2015.

Its Executive Secretary, Prof. Bem Angwe, made the declaration on Monday in Abuja when he received Mr Mike Omeri, the Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), at the commission’s headquarters.

“By the end of this year, we want to achieve a target of having at least 80 per cent of Nigerians aware of their rights.

“As a result of this, the commission has identified some institutions in the country to partner with.

“We commenced this partnership with parliamentarians who accepted to make available their constituencies and support the commission to promote the rights of their constituents.

“That relationship has produced resources and logistics needed to promote the rights of Nigerians in many states,’’ Angwe said.

Angwe said the commission had earlier partnered the NOA when its director general pledged to translate the section of the Nigerian constitution on human rights into the three major languages.

The executive secretary said that this partnership was necessary as it would enable Nigerians to read about their rights in their native languages.

“We desire that Nigerians be empowered physically, mentally and economically.

“ So we will work with the agency to make this happen by ensuring that every Nigerian is able to read about their rights in their various languages,’’ he said.

Omeri, on his part, said that the agency was working hard to complete the task of translating the section of the constitution on human rights into the three major Nigerian languages.

“We are still working on the promise we made to translate a portion of the constitution into the three major languages and we hope to get this done as soon as it is possible,’’ he said.

He appreciated the commitment of the commission to ensuring that the rights of every citizen were protected by swiftly intervening whenever the rights of a citizen were trampled on.

The NOA boss expressed concern that some Nigerians were still ignorant of their rights and would not even know when these rights were being abused.

“Currently at this phase of our development, a number of people are not aware of their fundamental human rights.

“Rights that are derived from our laws and rights that are natural and so they suffer without knowing that they have a platform to seek redress,’’ he said.

Omeri pledged the agency’s readiness to work with the NHRC to sensitise every Nigerian on their basic rights.

This, he said, would empower them to cry out when these rights were being infringed on even by the government.

Omeri called on the NHRC to provide the necessary tools to train its staff in the 774 local governments to enable them effectively educate Nigerians on their basic and fundamental human rights.


Source vanguardngr.com

Jose Mourinho admits Chelsea have no margin for error as the pressure mounts on the beleaguered Blues boss ahead of Wednesday’s crucial Champions League clash against Dynamo Kiev.
Mourinho faces one of the most significant moments in his long and illustrious career when Kiev visit Stamford Bridge for a match he cannot afford to lose.
The 52-year-old is hanging onto his job by a slender thread after a turbulent season took another turn for the worse with a 3-1 home defeat against Liverpool on Saturday.
That lacklustre loss left Chelsea languishing in 15th place in the English top-flight, with their six defeats from 11 games the worst start by defending champions in the Premier League era.
Chelsea’s malaise hasn’t been restricted to domestic competitions and their Champions League campaign is also in the balance after just one win from their three Group G matches leaves them in third place behind Kiev and leaders Porto.
Another setback against the Ukrainian champions would put Chelsea in severe danger of crashing out before the knockout stages and further increase the belief that Mourinho will be axed in the coming days.
Acknowledging the significance of the occasion, Mourinho, who received further bad news on Monday when he was handed a one-game stadium ban for this weekend’s trip to Stoke, said: “It’s a big game. It’s a game that we cannot lose.
“We still can finish first, second or third and obviously we want to finish in the top two.”
Blues owner Roman Abramovich is said to remain sympathetic to Mourinho’s problems, but the Russian billionaire has rarely been able to stop himself from wielding the axe when managers have failed to deliver in the past.
Mourinho’s chances of surviving are hardly helped by repeated reports of a dressing room mutiny by players unhappy with his stern man-management style.
So it couldn’t have been reassuring for Abramovich that a BBC reporter this week claimed one unnamed first-team star has said he would rather lose than win while playing under the Portuguese coach.
– Under seige –
Adding to the sense that Mourinho is a man under seige, on Monday he discovered he will be the subject of individual legal action from former Chelsea team doctor Eva Carneiro, who was removed from first-team duties after the manager criticised her for treating the injured Eden Hazard late in a draw with Swansea.
The 0-0 draw in Kiev in Chelsea’s last European fixture suggests the Ukrainians won’t necessarily provide the kind of tame opposition Mourinho could do with facing, especially with the Blues no longer such an imposing force at home.
Mourinho lost one of his first 99 Premier League home games, but Chelsea’s woes have erased the fear factor for visiting teams, with three Premier League clubs having taken maximum points on their visits to the Bridge already this season.
Restoring Chelsea’s sense of invincibility on home turf is one of the most important tasks facing Mourinho.
But he has cut an increasingly forlorn figure on the touchline during Chelsea’s run of one win from their last eight games and concern was etched on his face when he held an impromptu meeting with his coaching staff on the pitch minutes after the final whistle signalled their latest loss on Saturday.
Yet, despite a traumatic week in which the west Londoners lost to West Ham and Liverpool and were knocked out of the League Cup by Stoke, Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel insists Mourinho retains his team’s support.
“We are right behind the manager. There’s no doubt about it. If anyone can turn this around, we definitely think he’s the one,” Mikel said.
“We are giving 100 percent, we are playing for the manager, we are right behind him.
“He is doing everything that needs to be done. It’s just that right now things aren’t going well, so everyone (outside the club) wants him to go.
“I don’t think it’s the right way to go. He knows what’s wrong and it’s just a matter of time before results start coming.”


source vanguardngr.com

jumia no do well at all









smh

cool

HMM saraki na wash

Omo na opposite u dey talk so oh

Yeah am a jew but am not a jewman

C as dat man face be like...


This guy too much

First to comment

xhai

Nawa oh so dis scorpion wan kill a brother

2face innocent idibia,my mannest man still digging it out

Buhaha d girl don turn to commodity